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Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers / Simon Winchester.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062420077 :
- ISBN: 0062420070
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (14 1/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Harper Audio, [2015]
- Copyright: ℗2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. Unabridged. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Executive producer, Katie Ostrowka ; produced by Rick Harris. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Summary, etc.: | From New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester, an expansive look at the world's grandest body of water, the Pacific. |
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| Subject: | Winchester, Simon > Travel > Pacific Ocean. Ocean and civilization. Ocean travel. Pacific Ocean > Geography. Pacific Ocean > History. Pacific Ocean > Description and travel. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Travel writing. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main | CD 909.09823 W721ps 12 discs (Text) | 31307022465043 | Audiobooks | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Pacific : Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer. He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature. (Bowker Author Biography)
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